Journalist Raymund Catindig passed away on Thursday after suffering from cardiac arrest. He was 56. Photo from Catindig’s Facebook account
CITY OF ILAGAN, Isabela –– A 56-year-old journalist based here succumbed to cardiac arrest on Thursday, April 29, his relatives said.
Raymund Catindig, a correspondent of the Philippine Star, died inside his house in Bliss Village.
Catindig was known among his colleagues as a “hard-hitting” journalist.
He also worked for the Philippine Daily Inquirer as a correspondent in Cagayan Valley in the late 80s until 90s.
Initial reports said he did not die of COVID-19.
A journalism graduate of the Far Eastern University, Catindig had handled the family-owned Northern Sierra Madre Express as publisher-editor in the 1990s when his father, Reynaldo Catindig Sr. died until it folded up 10 years later.
He once joined the national government’s Philippine Information Service, now Philippine Information Agency.
Catindig was also a former part-time journalism college instructor at the Isabela State University-Ilagan Campus, and a former media relations officer of former Pasay Rep. Lito Roxas.
His relatives said his wake would be set at the St. Peter Funeral Homes in Gamu town, also in Isabela.